How To Use Headway In A Sentence

It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.
They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
His plan to change the constitution to give more power to the president has made little headway.
They made little headway popularizing Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament, and the unilateralist tide lacked any consistent direction.
He was slow to acquire the transactional skills that a conductor needs to make headway the orchestra.

Sports in general since then has made much headway thanks to those who worked hard for its development in rural districts and thanks to the unstinted efforts made by the present Minister of Sports S.B. Dissanayake at grassroot level.
To make any serious headway against unemployment, twice that number need to be created.
Although Democrats appear to be using the faltering economy to their advantage, Youngstown Republicans like McCain volunteer Tracey Winbush say they are making headway.
They were buying the best rams to improve their breed and made headway in double quick time.
Instead of speed, other countries should try instead to emulate the Shinkansen's remarkable frequency of train headway.
Garrymore, lacking the overall balance of their opponents, did make a spirited effort to get into the reckoning in the third quarter, but could make little headway.
I was too weak to swim properly but managed to make a little headway swimming across the current. Times, Sunday Times
But a surprising number were backing the FTSE 100 to make further headway. Times, Sunday Times
I try to make sure that we have the right people in the right activities and we're making headway.
The ship made little headway in the storm.
The concern is not only picking up the umbers and spreading them but it's been really hard for firefighters to get up in the air, to make any headway with this fire. CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007
In the present instance, to prevent what is called a "squatty" appearance, and also to give additional headway, the side walls were carried up some twenty inches above the ground line. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings
She managed to make some headway down the narrow street before she collapsed exhausted.
The boat made slow headway against the tide.
Some subgenres, such as the Gothic and science fiction, have until now made little headway in Arabic popular culture.
Although the paddle wheels were beginning to pick up a slow and even rhythm, even Kharl could tell that the ship was losing headway and might soon even lose steerageway. Wellspring of Chaos
The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all.
I have made a lot of headway in dejunking our house and trying to simplify our lives.
The buses on this line are running on a three - minute headway.
His social diary was crammed but on the romantic front he was making no headway at all.
The propeller blades of a good canaller will move twelve to fifteen miles, in their line of spiral movement, to get two to three miles headway for the boat. History of Steam on the Erie Canal
The boat was unable to make much headway against the tide.
Foreign firms have made little headway in the U.S. market.
But it is hard to see much headway for anyone reliant on discretionary consumer spending. Times, Sunday Times
Ridden by Paul Eddery, Press settled at the rear, then hogged the rails and made good headway but found nothing extra in the last two furlongs.
Only a resolute leader who sets an irreproachable personal example stands any chance of making headway.
In an announcement carried by state-run media on Tuesday, North Korea said it is "making brisk headway" for the launch of what it called a rocket carrying the nation's second experimental communications satellite. North Korea Resumes Role of Provocateur
I'm trying to learn to drive, but I'm not making much headway .
Besides, to make headway in European and Asian communication and ideas research.
Although the army has made similar arguments in the past, officers are making headway.
But so far they have made little headway. Times, Sunday Times
We should be able to make some headway on identification later today by checking dental records. AFTERMATH
It may as well have been thirty for all the headway they were making, stumbling blindly into the stinging bite of the wind.
That said, on 16 times earnings the share price may struggle to make much headway in the near term. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately as my term progressed, Commissioner Monegan was not making headway on key goals, such as filling numerous trooper vacancies. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
But it is hard to see it making much headway against the ideology that now pervades academic institutions.
Yes, I certainly agree that parallelism is one of the biggest fundamental challenges we have to make more headway on. Kurzwell’s Premise Coming True? « Tai-Chi Policy
The time it takes to operate the drawbridge is a significant fraction of the headways of the BRT service proposed to run on the bridge. Neighborhood Activists Still Oppose State’s 520 Option « PubliCola
However, slowly but surely women are making headway in the motoring industry.
He said she failed to make much headway in sericulture because the department was neglected over the years.
Although she was still making headway, her bow began to go under.
The tone of the book is offputtingly polemical at times, but there were a couple of good sections - Schwarz is pro-Shi'ite, so his take on Iran is much more sober than one usually gets from US sources; and his account of the failure of Wahhabism to make much headway in Bosnia or Kosovo is almost comical. January Books 17) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
This comes just as other voices in Labour are making headway pushing in a more progressive direction.
The boat was unable to make much headway against the tide.
Behe's statement here is basically an admission that ID has made no headway as science.
Given newspapers to read, he could make no headway because everything, every headline, opened out to widening associations.
The ship could make no headway against the strong wind.
The explanations were so arcane I would have made more headway with a textbook on particle physics.
The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all.
Despite mounting calls for agrarian reform and revisions to the 1960 Agrarian Law there has been little headway in the legal field on this subject.
Headway Pre-Intermediate invites students to think about how they learn, and actively encourages good study habits.
The oars bit in unison; the dory surged -forward, gaining headway, rising up the face of the capping sea. AMAGANSETT
Meanwhile, other dissident movements were making headway throughout Ethiopia.
The French failed to rally all non-Communist forces behind the weak Bao Dai, while their tanks and superior equipment made little headway in jungle warfare.
But it I wasn't until former agents of the East German secret police, known as Stasi, began to I talk -- and a new noncommunist East German government began to cooperate -- that the hunt made headway. Bad Time For Terrorists
If it is to make any headway, there needs to be much more significant headcount reduction. Times, Sunday Times
Using 'clockface' headways helps maintain ridership. News First Colorado - KOAA.com
On the other hand, failure to make any apparent headway towards regaining the West Bank threatened to weaken the regime domestically.
There is a strong wind, the sea is rough, and they make little headway. READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
Coalition forces are making headway in their battle against oil well fires.
Why is it that so many people, including the government officials we have elected to run this country and protect it from peril, are always so adamantly opposed to any headway in correcting a problem that plagues this country. Napolitano takes aim at Arizona immigration law
The headway ran almost out, and he drew up slowly toward the sidewalk.
The Swindon and District branch of Headway, based at Victoria Hospital, provides a lifeline to Swindonians after they leave hospital.
PDPs have developed and delivered antimalarial medicines and are making headway in the development of vaccines and rapid diagnostic tests. Jeffrey L. Sturchio: Malaria: Solid Success but No Time for Complacence
The party had made little headway since the nadir of 2002.
With the boat still making headway, our guide Nico jumps off the platform and immediately descends, trailing a line attached to a second buoy.
the ship made little headway against the gale
An ambitious kid could make decent headway if he was willing to smooth-talk lots of retailers and undercut his competitors.
His research in cancer that spanned 15 years has made considerable headway in the end.
Little headway was made in the maul but the ball was switched across the field.
The oars bit in unison; the dory surged -forward, gaining headway, rising up the face of the capping sea. AMAGANSETT
It took months of patience and persistence to make even a little headway with this busy boy.
The boat was unable to make much headway against the tide.
‘The good news is we are making headway in many parts of the country,’ he will declare.
He is not disappointed at the failure to make headway towards resolving their differences.
Foreign firms have made little headway in the U.S. market.
On its northeastern flank, the rains are only making slow headway, but the monsoon is soaking the northwest region ahead of schedule. Times, Sunday Times
By the end of last year, Beijing seemed to be making headway in preventing the economy from boiling over.
Deal with issues quickly and efficiently and you'll make headway. The Sun
When the excitement had got a little headway on it, they formed a tea society, with the parson's wife for presidentess, and her oldest daughter for secretary. Homeward Bound or, the Chase
Another Goldsworthy's hairdresser is also making headway in the competition.
Women smoking and drinking in public, which had been the exclusive practice of prostitutes and unassimilated German immigrants, “were becoming fashionable for married women of the upper class and were making headway at other class levels.” A Renegade History of the United States
Structural changes aside, it's hard to get a fix on whether the gumshoes are making headway.
You've got to imagine that comic book movies are coming to the end of their course and vg adaptations have yet to make any headway. Badass Japanese Movie Trailer for The Last Airbender | /Film
Nor should it be overlooked that there are some others making headway in this battle for the clothing market.
She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.
Davis appears to have paid the price for his conspiratorial reputation and has been scapegoated for the party's failure to make any political headway.
I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Heavy earth-moving equipment sent in to clear the mudflows are failing to make headway as torrential rains continue to fall in the region.
Alf, I've heard fellows say (and they was men that had had experience with women, too) -- I've heard 'em say that the chap that dilly-dallies with a woman, and always acts as sweet as pie, never makes no headway. Dixie Hart
Integrated supply agreements appear to be making significant headway in multiplant and national agreement situations. Purchasing - Top Stories
It is surely no boat but we ourselves who are struggling make headway against the current.
According to a source close to the deal, Ross hasn't made much headway in integrating his steel plants, and faced major capital outlays for computer systems and coking batteries, among other things.
The explanations were so arcane I would have made more headway with a textbook on particle physics.
So far it seems that negotiations are not making headway on a key issue.
I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
The company also extended the train headway from three to six minutes during this period.
The ship could make no headway against the strong wind.
Thus she made as much leeway as headway, could get along very nearly as fast with the wind ahead as when it was apoop, and was particularly great in a calm; in consequence of which singular advantages she made out to accomplish her voyage in a very few months, and came to anchor at the mouth of the Hudson a little to the east of Gibbet Island. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
They made little headway in the two main sectors of women's employment, domestic service and textiles.
The ship could make no headway against the strong wind.
Given their outperformance, they may struggle to make much headway for now but remain a strong long-term hold. Times, Sunday Times
She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.
This option largely failed to make headway for many of the basic theoretical reasons that were outlined in Chapter 2.
The ship made little headway in the storm.
Chemists in Germany and elsewhere continued to make headway researching alternatives to alkaline soaps, and after World War I, the wider availability of indoor plumbing brought the word shampoo a big step closer to international recognition. The English Is Coming!
Foreign firms have made little headway in the U.S. market.
Pragmatism has hitherto made headway chiefly in America and Britain, but on its activistic side it is akin to a new philosophical movement which has appeared in France and Germany. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
We concentrated on resistance and cardio and I started to make some headway with my weight loss.
His research in cancer that spanned 15 years has made considerable headway in the end.
There was concern in the city that police were making little headway in the investigation.
But I did manage to make some headway for you. The Sun
If it is to make any headway, there needs to be much more significant headcount reduction. Times, Sunday Times
For all its warts, Montreal is making headway in the sustainable architecture crusade.
Now, if I'd managed to make any headway in checking the proofs of my book (which are sitting here beside me, a teetering pile of unbound A4 just waiting to be kicked over), my day would have been pretty well perfect.
They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
Only a resolute leader who sets an irreproachable personal example stands any chance of making headway.
Even though women had a lot of difficulty with their published works at this time, almanacs were one area of publishing where women were able to make some headway.
deaden a ship's headway
On the perennial issue of football reform his committee has failed to make much headway, despite making threats about independent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
They could make no headway against such a cyclone, and ran back down the slope to the cover of the woods.
University of Southern California professor Theodore W. Berger, whose work we've previously blogged, is making headway on an implantable chip that functions like the hippocampus. Boing Boing: October 17, 2004 - October 23, 2004 Archives
On the doorsteps, the Conservatives are making headway on immigration.
I'm trying to learn to drive, but I'm not making much headway .
But vintners made headway last year with the publication of new federal dietary guidelines that for the first time described those benefits.
You may not manage to make much practical headway, but at least you'll have a good time catching up with the gossip. The Sun
You do not want to make headway or sternway but simply pivot with a continuous motion.
I am much less stressed since the change and finally making headway on a lot of old tasks.
But the party realises that pragmatism rather than dogmatism is required if it is to make headway in a deeply divided polity.
Headway has also been made on getting the homeless off the streets as the amount of tramps and beggars seems minimal in comparison to major UK cities.
Acceptance gaps can be created either by headways in a traffic stream or by traffic control devices such as traffic signals at junctions and pelican crossings.
There can be little doubt that she had despaired of making headway in an old-fashioned world.

How To Use Headway In A Sentence

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